Kansas Jayhawks Links
Kansas goes on the road without Bill Self and still gets the win.
Melvin Council Jr. scored 10 of his 18 points over the final 5:07 and No. 19 Kansas held off Colorado 75-69 on Tuesday night with assistant coach Jacque Vaughn leading the Jayhawks as Bill Self recovers from a precautionary trip to the hospital.
Since the game was played late, here are the highlights.
It was also the first conference road win for the Jayhawks this season. It may have been against Colorado but it’s good to get that checked off before heading to Manhattan this weekend.
Gary Parrish made the case that staying up late to watch Darryn Peterson would be worth it:
But if there’s any player in college basketball worthy of you going to the Keurig machine a few times after dinner, it’s probably Peterson. After missing nine of Kansas’ first 13 games because of various soft-tissue issues, the 6-foot-5 guard seems to finally be getting comfortable. He’s coming off of his best performance of the season. Against Baylor on Friday, Peterson took 13 shots, made 11 of them and finished with 26 points, three assists and two rebounds in an 80-62 victory. By the time it was done, nobody was questioning any NBA mock draft with Peterson’s name at the top.
The Lady Jayhawks also got a nice road win, beating Arizona 80-69.
Jaliya Davis and S’Mya Nichols combined for 43 points to help the Kansas Jayhawks snap a four-game slide with an 80-69 victory over the Arizona Wildcats Tuesday evening at the McKale Center.
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Other Links!
This section is going to be short today because it’s getting a bit challenging finding good links that aren’t connected to the mad president throwing a tantrum about the Nobel.
I’m a big Ray Ratto fan, so I’m going to share his take on Sean McDermott getting fired by Buffalo.
And so it is with the current NFL coaching mudfight, in which 10 teams, some of them quite successful, have decided that the person in charge of that success must lose their gig anyway, either because the team owner wants something else out of disappointment, boredom, or personality defect.
This one is a few days old but takes a look at the gambling indictment that was issued last week concerning college basketball.
If the game-fixing doesn’t work, you may just be setting your bros up to look like total clowns for no reason. The indictment describes a failed attempt to rig a game between Buffalo and Kent State in February 2024, when Fulcher was at Buffalo. For the last 13 minutes of the first half, when it was starting to look like Kent State would not cover the first-half spread as required for the bets to hit, Fulcher and two teammates in on the scheme “scored a total of 1 point, missing several shots, including layups and dunks, and committing several turnovers.” It didn’t work: Needing nine points to cover the first-half spread, Kent State went into halftime up by eight.
QOTD: We’re a week away from February already, how are you doing on your New Year’s goals or resolutions?
